80% power demand of country can be met using renewable energy: expert

Around 80 percent of the country's demand of electricity could be addressed by using renewable energy including solar and wind power systems, according to an expert.

"Germany and the Latin American countries including Cuba are now planning to generate 80 percent of their power by setting up renewable energy systems and we should consider these methods to address our ongoing power crisis," said Dr Sajed Kamal, a scientist and teacher of Brandeis University, Massachusetts in USA.

He was speaking at a seminar, titled ?Solar Energy Resource: Bangladesh?s Un-utilizing Energy Storehouse?, at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) in the city on Friday.

Bangladesh Poribesh Andolan (BAPA) organized the seminar, which was chaired by former adviser of the caretaker government and BAPA vice-president Advocate Sultana Kamal.